Like a view through a porthole of a worker in a shipyard, here is a member of Union Pacific’s Steam Shop crew grinding in the firebox of 4-8-4 No. 844, looking through the firebox door opening i... (more)

The cab of Union Pacific rotary snowplow No. 900082 allows the crew to operate the motive power back in the train as well as the operations of the plow itself. The unique “marine windows” are ... (more)

Union Pacific rotary snowplow No. 900082 resides in the Steam Shop at Cheyenne, Wyoming, on March 25, 2013. During the winter months, the plow is readied for service and stands by in case it is ne... (more)

Seems a scene from the past, the stationmaster of Spinazzola, with the help of his white four-legged "collegue", gives the "all clear" signal to the engineer of one of the only three daily serices... (more)

Cab shot of MBTX 1133, a GP40MC. Taken with permission

Lending truth to the name "armstrong lever," the signal box operator at Tipperary leans waaaaay back to line up the morning eastbound service from Limerick Junction to Waterford. The levers are d... (more)

The conductor on 470's train, gives the east switch at New Hampton a quick sweep, and now is in the process of lining the switch for the main after meeting a 361 train. The snow is coming down har... (more)

Passing the torch. One of the stark realities of steam railroad operations is that most of the men who serviced and ran the locomotives in actual service are gone now. Even the first coupl... (more)

Four veteran Interstate Railroad employees on the Second Yard Crew pose with their motive power--INT number 25--on a fall afternoon in 1953. The occasion is the last use of the Consolidation. Left... (more)

Grandsons.

STOP-Obstruction Ahead That's what the sign the NS supervisors are carrying away said. To test the crew of the southbound TVA coal train to see if they followed the speed restriction, the s... (more)

After cutting the string of mtys in half and sending them to the loadout, an RJ Corman trainmaster heads back to the last half awaiting hookup. The forty-two mile branchline is owned by RJ Corman ... (more)

The driver of the "Allegra" ABe 8/12 # 3512, running the "Engadin Star" service from Landquart via Klosters to St.Moritz, is greeting his collegue on a oncoming train inside the 19 kilometer long ... (more)

Rio Grande Utah Division Engineer Jim Ozment offers the photographer a gesture of strength and might as he prepares his high rail vehicle for inspection of the track through Spanish Fork Canyon. J... (more)

"We're on the ground..." It was not a good morning for NS along the Lehigh Line in New Jersey. While driving to Manville to catch 64J I heard the crew reporting the bad news over the radio... (more)